April 24, 2016

M-band 2D dual-tree (Hilbert) wavelet multicomponent image denoising

The toolbox implements a parametric nonlinear estimator that generalizes several wavelet shrinkage denoising methods. Dedicated to additive Gaussian noise, it adopts a multivariate statistical approach to take into account both the spatial and the inter-component correlations existing between the different wavelet subbands, using a Stein Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE) principle, which derives optimal parameters. The wavelet choice is a slightly redundant multi-band geometrical dual-wavelet frame. Experiments on multispectral remote sensing images outperform conventional wavelet denoising techniques (including curvelets). Since they are based on MIMO filter banks (multi-input, multi-ooutput), in a mullti-band fashion,, we can called they MIMOlets quite safely. The dual-tree wavelet consists in two directional wavelet trees, diisplayed below for a 4-band filter:

The demonstration script is Init_Demo.m, and the functions for M-band dual-tree wavelets are provided in the directory TOOLBOX_DTMband_solo. For instance, the clean multispectral image (port of Tunis, only one channel):